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While they aren’t directly considered ACLs, do you think that the RHCSA exam might include questions regarding lsattr and chattr? I haven’t run into much need for them, but Michael Jang’s book covers them and makes it seem like they might be included. Also, if you are using an xfs filesystem, it seems like you don’t need to edit fstab at all for ACLs. I haven’t tested this on RHEL but in Centos 7, I could manipulate ACLs without the flag in /etc/fstab. Just to confirm, I placed the acl after defaults as I have done with ext4 systems before… Read more »

Concerning the lsattr et chattr commands, you can spend several minutes to learn how to use them and if a question occurs during an exam, display the related man pages.
Concerning the acl option, I have seen the same situation with the ext4 file system: it seems that this option is a default. If acls work without specifying them, I don’t think you need to waste your time to set it.

3 years ago

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ak340

Hi CertDepot,

would like to ask if including ,acl after defaults in /etc/fstab is a must, I have set an acl to a directory (ext4 type btw) and the configuration persisted even after reboot

For me, it is an advanced topic than I’m not sure to master myself (because I never had to use it, RHCSA exam included!) 😉
If I can find some detailed information about it, I will add it to the tutorial.
Thanks.